Discovery BoxGenesis 28:6 
Context28:6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. 1 As he blessed him, 2 Isaac commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” 3
Genesis 34:16
Context34:16 Then we will give 4 you our daughters to marry, 5 and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.
1 tn Heb “to take for himself from there a wife.”
2 tn The infinitive construct with the preposition and the suffix form a temporal clause.
3 tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”
4 tn The perfect verbal form with the vav (ו) consecutive introduces the apodosis of the conditional sentence.
5 tn The words “to marry” (and the words “as wives” in the following clause) are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
